I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have a gazillion photo programs - some I'm just trying out, some I have. What I want to be able to do is cut around an object in a picture and delete the background. I have Infanview and that lets me do that but what it does is replace the background with a white background. I want the whole background to disappear. I have a trial of Photo Shop Pro and I can do it with that too, but it gives me grey and white checks where the background used to be. I also have ArcSoft Photo Impression, and Microsoft Photo Editor. Last night I installed and uninstalled at least ten different photo editors (freeware or shareware). Included in that list was: Oriens Enhancer Gold; Serif 3D plus; VCW VicMan's Photo Editor; Image Analyzer; Image Forge; Image Enhance - and a few more that I don't remember. Now, it seems to me that this should be a simple thing to do and I'm just too stupid to figure it out. So if anybody can help me with this, I would be more than thrilled!! Thank you! Peggy --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.659 / Virus Database: 423 - Release Date: 4/16/2004 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info chadfree" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to; chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to chadfree-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-